Comment 24 for bug 208548

If you boil it down, the most glaring issue here is the fact that the Gnome Panel development team decided to remove the possibility to set the first day of the week from the Calendar preferences. Why they did so is anyone's guess, it is a desirable feature and removing is a pretty stupid idea. Then again, dumbing things down too much has always been one of the greater problems with Gnome.

If anyone could point me to a place where this can be discussed with the developers, I would appreciate it greatly.

In the general case, I hope the GUI tool discussed above will be in Karmic, because this is an issue that affects a lot more people than one would think.